On 12/13 08:41 , Krsnendu dasa wrote: > Is there any advantage to using rsync for a localhost backup, or will > tar be just as good or better. I have heard that tar is faster than > rsync and because there is no network traffic involved it might be > better to minimize cpu overhead and use tar.
I usually only back up /etc/ on the backup server itself (and I do keep the backup pool on a disk separate from the OS). For that, it's probably just as good to use tar. it's such a small amount of data that it really doesn't matter in either case. I use tar to back up the local data, unless there's a huge amount of it that doesn't change; just like the example in the Debian package. :) -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
